Anaesthetic management of a pregnant patient in a persistent vegetative state

Anaesthetic management of a pregnant patient for aortic valve replacement.

Cardiac disease can be encountered during pregnancy with the frequency being 1% to 2% of all pregnant women. Because of the high foetal and relative maternal mortality during surgery, medical management is the first line of treatment. Nevertheless, when medical treatment fails, cardiac surgery becomes necessary. We present the anaesthetic management of a case of Aortic valve disease in a pregna...

In the name of good intentions: nurses' perspectives on caring for a pregnant patient in a persistent vegetative state.

hink back to all of the patients you have cared for during your nursing career. Some of them really stand out in your memory, don’t they? There was the young man with terminal cancer who was the same age as your son, the father of 2 growing boys who lost his limbs to pneumococcal sepsis, the mentally retarded 65year-old, so sweet, yet all alone as a ward of the court, and the young Marine who, ...

Children in a persistent vegetative state.

years of the North Karelia study the mortality from cardio-vascular disease in women aged 30 to 64 fell from 2 5 to 1-7 per 1000 person years compared with a fall from 7-7 to 6-3 in men. 19 Mortality from stroke fell in women by half, and this is likely to be sustained by the continuing fall in blood pressure .8 A 12 year follow up study in Gothenburg of 1462 women found that 13% of women at ba...

CPR for patients in a persistent vegetative state?

Cortical function in the persistent vegetative state.

expressed quantitative cerebral activity is crucial. The strongest evidence that supports the concept of early recovery of awareness in Menon et al.'s patient is that she ultimately recovered consciousness. Had she never regained any additional expressed qualities of attention, recognition, or interactive behavior beyond the P300 and the PET findings after another eight months (i.e. a year afte...